What does ʻEmalia mean in Hawaiian?
ʻEmalia is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Emilia. It is pronounced eh-mah-LEE-ah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻEmalia belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Emilia in Hawaiian
Emilia comes from Aemilia, a Roman family name in the feminine, and lives on as Emilia in Italian and Spanish and as Emily in English. It reached Hawaiʻi with the English names of the nineteenth century.
ʻEmalia is one of two Hawaiian spellings, and the one that moves furthest from the original, turning the middle e into a. The other, ʻEmelia, keeps the English vowel. The ʻokina at the front is a consonant in Hawaiian, a short stop before the first vowel.
Emilia in Hawaiian
ʻEmalia is the Hawaiian form of Emilia, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Emilia means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Emilia in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce ʻEmalia
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻEmalia are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻEmalia is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻEmalia a boy or girl name?
ʻEmalia is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 243 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often ʻEmalia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 243 U.S. babies named ʻEmalia from 1984 to 2023, all girls, counted as Emalia because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 24 of those 40 years. Its peak was 2018, with 17. The 2014 to 2023 total of 121 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is ʻEmalia?
ʻEmalia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.